Posted on 06/25/2014 11:00:00 AM PDT by FredDardick
Bill Clinton must think it’s still the 1990’s when a complacent press could cover up each and every mistake he made (sexual impropriety, lies, theft, etc…). Unfortunately for Clinton and his out of touch wife and daughter, who apparently just can’t get herself to care about money from her $10 million condo in New York City, the internet age can take stupidity viral in about 10 minutes.
With wages stagnant and the future looking dim for many Americans living through the Obama economy, in an interview with Meet the Press host David Gregory Clinton defended Hillary’s “dead broke” claims after leaving the White House in the worst way possible – he also cried poverty.
“It is factually true that we were several million dollars in debt.” said Clinton. He went on to portray himself as a man of the people, “I had the lowest net worth of any American president in the 20th Century when I took office.”
What Clinton neglected to mention is the hefty price that taxpayers have paid to help maintain his lavish lifestyle. Clinton’s offices in Harlem alone cost taxpayers nearly $450,000 a year which includes his $184.26 monthly DirecTV bill. Since 2001 the Clintons have collected a total of $15,938,000 in federal money.
Considering the Clintons’ net worth is somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 million, nearly one third of their estimated wealth can be directly traced to backs of hardworking Americans who are increasingly struggling to pay their bills as they find their work hours cut and earnings plunge because of ObamaCare.
With Hillary scheduled to collect $225,000 from the University of Nevada for a speaking engagement in October and the Clinton Foundation’s refusal to release its financial records, likely because of the enormous sums the foundation wastes on hotel bills, dinners, travel expenses and other luxuries that have nothing to do with charity, the Clintons have taken shaking down ordinary folk for cash to new heights.
Clinton told Gregory that the “real issue” facing presidential candidates shouldn’t be how much money they have, but whether they are “out of touch”. Considering that Clinton is scheduled to receive $950,000 in federal money in 2014 alone, I would say “out of touch” doesn’t begin to cover Bill and Hillary Clinton’s attitude towards American taxpayers.
Maybe it’s time we take a very public look at whether Bill & Hillary are poor or not. And exactly what they do with our money.
They left the whitehouse and left us dead broke! Makes sense now!
I want to be broke like that.
Why are we paying for Clinton’s office in New York City?
That is outrageous!
They left the White House ‘dead broke’ because he lied in a court of law about an affair with an intern. Maybe he should have told the truth FOR ONCE especially in court.
But, they actually didn’t end up paying for the legal bills anyway, donors did. And anywhere they fly someone else foots the bill, not them.
Bill Clinton came here for a school signing ceremony and a friend of the school footed the bill for the private plane which cost around $40,000.
I seem to remember that they were charging the Secret Service rent for space on the grounds of their Chappaqua estate.
Pretty sure they got their mortgage covered.
Yeah, but Hillary didn’t see a penny of that, and in his defense, cigars, hookers and golf outings cost a lot of money.
Not just that, but I heard that neighborhood is a nightmare now, with checkpoints that monitor every one who lives in the neighborhood and records all their movements in and out of their own home.
From what I recall, that was about $10k/month. Just enough to cover the mortgage, as you pointed out.
Billy gets a Federal pension for being President. He may also collect something from Arkansas for being governor. Hillary would also collect a federal pension for being a US Senator and Secretary of State. Those probably add up to $500K. Not sure where the other $400-500 comes from.
I think he was gov and attorney general, more years for pension payout.
Rush was talking about BJ’s penthouse love nest at the Clinton Double Wide Presidential Library in Little Rock.
Apparently super models visit frequently for meetings of the “Clinton Global Initiative”.
Why according to the media, brother Clinton and the misses are living in a double wide trailer in Dogpatch, Arkansas and just getting by on Bill’s government pension.
“I had the lowest net worth of any American president in the 20th Century when I took office.”
not according to the WSJ - scroll thru the slide show
The American people would have voted to give him even more if they weren’t so overtaxed themselves.
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